Jianyang dialect

Jianyang (Kienyang) (Northern Min: Gṳ̿ing-iô̤ng-dī / 建陽事) is a dialect of Northern Min Chinese spoken in Jianyang in the north of Fujian province.

Jianyang
Gṳ̿ing-iô̤ng-dī / 建陽事
Native to	Southern China
Region	Jianyang, Fujian
Language family	Sino-Tibetan Sinitic Chinese Min Inland Min Northern Min Jianyang
Early forms	Proto-Sino-Tibetan Old Chinese[a] Proto-Min
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	jian1241
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Phonology

Jianyang dialect has 18 initials, 34 rimes and 8 tones.

Initials

Stops		Nasals	Fricatives	Approx.
p	pʰ	m	β
t	tʰ	n		l
ts	tsʰ		s
k	kʰ	ŋ	x
ʔ			h	ɦ

• Fricative and affricate sounds /ts, tsʰ, s, x/ are realized as more palatal as [tɕ, tɕʰ, ɕ, ç], when preceding front vowels.
• /β/ can be realized as an approximant [ʋ] within different segments.

Rimes

a	ia	ua
ɔ	iɔ
o		uo
e	ie	ue	ye
ai
ɔi		ui
au
au	iu
	i		y
aŋ	iaŋ	uaŋ
ɔŋ	iɔŋ	uɔŋ
eiŋ	ieiŋ	ueiŋ	yeiŋ
aiŋ
ɔiŋ
oŋ	iŋ	uŋ

Tones

No.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Tone name	dark level 陰平	light level A 陽平甲	light level B 陽平乙	rising 上聲	dark departing 陰去	light departing 陽去	dark entering 陰入	light entering 陽入
Tone contour	˥˧ (53)	˧˧˦ (334)	˦˩ (41)	˨˩ (21)	˧˧˨ (332)	˦˧ (43)	˨˩˦ (214)	˦ (4)

The entering tones in Jianyang dialect don't have any entering tone coda (入聲韻尾) such as /-ʔ/, /-p̚/, /-t̚/ and /-k̚/. It's quite different from many other Chinese dialects.

Notes

1. Min is believed to have split from Old Chinese, rather than Middle Chinese like other varieties of Chinese.^[1][2][3]